ICH602S Tutorial: Coordination Compounds 18 September 2017

Question 1:

(a) Give the Oxidation Number, d-orbital occupation, co-ordination number and expected
magnetic moment of the central metal ion in the following complexes.
Draw the expected structure.

(i) K3[Co(C2O4)3]

(ii) (NH4)2[CoF4]

(iii) diamagnetic [NiCl2{P(C6H5)3}2]

(iv) cis-[CrCl2(bipy)2]Cl

(v) [Mn(H2O)6]SO4

(b) Which of the complexes above can exhibit isomerism? Explain.

(c) Give the IUPAC name for the complex (ii) in part (a).

Question 2

Write down the systematic name for each of the following complexes and indicate the
oxidation state, electronic configuration, coordination number, stereochemistry and
magnetic moment of the central ion.

a) K[Cr(oxal)2(H2O)2] .3H2O

b) CrCl3(pyr)3

c) K4[Mn(CN)6]

d) [CoCl(NH3)5] Cl2

e) Cs[FeCl4]

f) [NiCl(en)2(NH3)]Cl

g) [Cu(NH3)4(H2O)]SO4